Here is a link to my album if you care to have a look.
The first page is some from last year's Potager up on the hill above the house (formerly the Herb Garden)
The second part shows the stages of this year's Make-Over of the kitchen garden down by the back of the house (taken from early March 2007 thru last week) into a terraced garden or Potager. Some of the photos are out of sequence, but they are dated and you can see the progression.
It will never stay the same. I change my gardens every year or so, moving things about and adding new things. I try new plants and like to try to find new ways to grow them. I experiment with plants in this area of the country - what grows well and is of course hardy enough to take the extremes of Oklahoma weather. I am already contemplating changing everything back to my old-fashioned country gardens and creating a new herb garden up in front of the greenhouse next year, but for now I will enjoy them.
As you can see, I prefer an informal garden setting to the formal. A formal garden would look strange with my little Country Cottage, I think. I like to grow lots of unique and yummy vegetables, especially Tomatoes, Okra and hot peppers. I can them and freeze some of the surplus for winter. We eat fresh every day in the season thereof and give some away to friends and family.
On the north side of the garden are Plum trees, Shrub Cherries and Peaches. Hope to plant Apricots this year and perhaps some Asian Pears. There are Apple trees, Peaches, and Bartlett pears in the orchard below the garden. I have Black berries and strawberries and would like to grow grapes for making jams. On the south side of my cottage I have a Brown Turkey Fig tree that bears sweet, pink-fleshed figs and I have two Loquat trees in large containers that I hope will someday produce fruit. Up on the hill in the meadow grows thickets of Native Prairie Sand Plums. I brave the the dense thickets of fierce, well-armed thorny branches, the snakes and other wildlife that make their home under and around the protection of the plum thickets, and the chiggers and mosquitos that bite, just to get at the sweet little red skinned, yellow-fleshed plums that produce the most delectable Plum Jam every summer. Of course, I always leave a good amount of fruit for the wildlife who share this land with me.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
~Annie
Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Gardens
gldno1
memo3
Related Professionals
Bridgetown Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Barrington Hills Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Hyattsville Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Otsego Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Winder Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Harvey Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Woburn Landscape Contractors · Bound Brook Landscape Contractors · Galveston Landscape Contractors · Streamwood Landscape Contractors · West Chicago Landscape Contractors · West Orange Landscape Contractors · Fallbrook Swimming Pool Builders · West Chester Swimming Pool Builders · Willoughby Swimming Pool Buildersirene_dsc
moonphase
diggity_ma
AnnieOriginal Author
amyjean
Tracy Brant